Pearl Harbor and the Bay of Pigs by Jacob G. Hornberger December 8, 2020 U.S. officials have long criticized Japan for its supposedly unprovoked military attack on Pearl Harbor, which enabled President Roosevelt to fulfill his desire to intervene into World War II. As I showed in my blog post yesterday, the Japanese attack was hardly unprovoked, given Roosevelt’s actions that were designed to provoke Japan into “firing the first ...
A President Who Should Live in Infamy by Jacob G. Hornberger December 7, 2020 Today, December 7, is the anniversary of the “day that will live in infamy,” as President Franklin Roosevelt put it after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The mainstream editorialists and op-ed writers will undoubtedly cart out the standard tripe about how Japan initiated an unprovoked attack on the United States, which, they will say, totally surprised ...
The Late Great Walter Williams by Jacob G. Hornberger December 3, 2020 As most everyone in the libertarian movement knows by now, the great libertarian economist Walter Williams passed away a couple of days ago. HIs passing came as a big shock to me and, I suspect, to most other libertarians. Walter has been a giant, larger-than-life figure in the libertarian movement. I never thought about the possibility of ...
The Federal Reserve Killed My Grandfather by Jacob G. Hornberger December 2, 2020 One day when I was in high school, my father told me about the death of his father. In the 1920s, my grandfather, who lived in San Antonio, owned the second-largest insurance agency in Texas. He had extended a large amount of credit to his customers. One afternoon he came home, and my dad said that his ...
The Mainstream Press Has Failed America by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2020 While President Trump continues to maintain that the presidential election was marred by massive fraud, the mainstream press continues to maintain that Trump’s charges are “false” and “baseless” and that his allegations are damaging trust in America’s democratic electoral system. Actually, however, it’s the other way around: It’s the mainstream press, owing to its extreme ...
Anti-Mask Isn’t Libertarian by Jacob G. Hornberger November 30, 2020 Ever since Covid 19 surfaced last spring, there has been a fierce debate over whether people should wear masks. Some people, including virtually everyone in the government, have argued that masks inhibit the spread of the coronavirus. Others have maintained the contrary, or have maintained that it’s their own business as to whether they wear a mask ...
The CIA’s Anti-Democracy Actions by Jacob G. Hornberger November 25, 2020 It’s nice to see Democrats and the mainstream press emphasizing the virtues of democracy in the context of their condemnations of President Trump for refusing to concede the presidential election to Joe Biden. But let’s not forget five anti-democratic actions taken in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970 by the CIA, which is the pride and glory ...
Ike, JFK, and Truman: Conspiracy Theorists? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 24, 2020 Oddly, those people who use the appellation “conspiracy theorist” for people who have concluded, based on the evidence, that the U.S. national-security establishment carried out a very sophisticated and deadly regime-change operation against President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, never apply their appellation to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Truman. What’s up with that?
What Progressives Just Don’t See by Jacob G. Hornberger November 23, 2020 Progressives (i.e., liberals or socialists) want government to help the poor. That means giving money, food, housing, clothing, or other items to the poor. In a larger sense, they want government to take what is sometimes called a “national pie” and distribute it in a way that is deemed to be equitable, especially by giving much of ...
The Cunning Plot to Kill Kennedy by Jacob G. Hornberger November 20, 2020 If anyone murders a federal official, you can be assured of one thing: the feds will do everything they can to ensure that everyone involved in the crime is brought to justice. It’s like when someone kills a cop. The entire police force mobilizes to capture, arrest, and prosecute everyone involved in killing the cop. The phenomenon is ...
The Pentagon and the CIA Are in Charge of Foreign Policy by Jacob G. Hornberger November 19, 2020 President Trump has announced that he is ordering a partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Iraq during the waning days of his administration. Why only partial? And why now in the waning days of his presidency? After all, when Trump campaigned in 2016, his expressed aim was to bring all the troops home from ...
Did the CIA Cause a Mexican General to Escape Drug Charges? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 18, 2020 In what can only be called a federal judicial miracle, retired Mexican General Salvador Cienfuegoes is being set free in the United States and permitted to return to Mexico. Just last month, Cienfuegos was taken into custody at Los Angeles International Airport when he was visiting LA on vacation. The charges? That when he was serving as ...
